2 Centavos Fuertes Pattern

Argentina's currency system in the 1870s was a bureaucratic tangle of provincial issues, foreign coins, and paper money of wildly varying credibility. The "fuertes" denomination — pegged to hard currency rather than the depreciating paper peso — was part of a broader federal effort to impose monetary order that largely failed before it began. This pattern was never adopted for circulation.

CJ#25.1 indicates at least one documented die variant, suggesting the design went through evaluation stages before being abandoned entirely.